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IDENTITIES Of Mutually Intelligible Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin, Hindi and Urdu, American English and British English

by: Kroatocentrik

Publication date: 2021-11-01

Topics: Croatian language, Serbian language, linguistics, sociolinguistics, Croatian language

Collection: opensource

Language: English

The content of this book is in accordance with the descriptions of the history of the Croatian language, and to a lesser extent of other, related languages, such as those found in the works of philologists, linguists and Slavicists Krunoslav Krstić, Radoslav Katičić, Dalibor Brozović, Stjepan Babić, Josip Lisac, Dragica Malić, Branka Tafra, Dubravka Sesar, Mario Grčević, Leopold Auburger and Barbara Oczkowa.

Polycentric standard languages such as English, French, German, Spanish and so on, meet five criteria:

First, the speakers understand each other.
Second, language has the same name throughout history used by the authors in that language.
Third, the language is based on the same written corpus.
Fourth, language has the same cultural-communication community throughout history, and the awareness of speakers that they speak the same national language, an abbreviated- the same cultural-identity community.
Fifth, they are essentially standardized at the same place and in the same time.

We will use these five criteria for analysis. With these criteria, we will analyze whether American English and British English are the same language, as well as whether Hindi and Urdu are the same language. Frames with three different colors mean that language pairs are compared, the first two pairs are Croatian and Serbian, the second two pairs are American with British English, and the third two pairs are Hindi and Urdu. In the video we will show the historical development of the Croatian language and the historical development of the Serbian language.

Text and figures from the book also available here, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aUu4C_GKKcCUpcLlow79FIzrIRpLE-BuyFCYhqlvowI/edit

Video presenting the content in the video available on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O09HQ9hZPKE

Video available on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/100071168561105/videos/581378993075649

Video available on archive.org, https://archive.org/details/idenetities-of-mutually-inteligibille-languages-croatian-and-serbian-v-2-usporedba-studeni-2021